PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Marks Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Marks graveyard at Old Town:
                  1937 June 11
                  Research made by Jennie S. Harrison

Cemetery Location:  6.4 miles northeast of Disputanta, Virginia, on Route #625; 
                    thence 1.2 miles west on Route #616; thence 1.9 miles north 
                    of Route #616.
                    Prince George Co., Virginia


DATE:

1891, date of oldest marker.

OWNERS:

The estate on which this graveyard is located was bought on March 27, 1808 by 
Edward A. Marks, Jr., from the “Old Town” estate of Charles Carter.  It remained 
in the Marks family by inheritance until Edward Richard Marks sold it on 
September 4, 1902, to David W. Hobbs.  Who sold it on March 20, 1924, to Andrew 
Rusnak and his wife Mary, who are the present owners. [1937]

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is a plot sixty by sixty feet, located in an open field and 
surrounded by a barb-wire fence.  There is a growth of many cedar trees and many 
sunken placed which indicate there have been graves other than the ones which 
have tombstones.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscriptions:

Charles H. Marks
Born Aug. 15, 1845
Died June 22, 1896
Death is eternal life Why should we die.


Helen R. Marks
Born June 30, 1848
Died Sept. 10, 1910
Death is eternal life Why should we die.


Edward Marks
son of John H. & Sarah H. Marks
1839 – 1891
and three of his infant children.


In memory of
John H. Marks
and
Sarah H. Marks
and
three children
erected 1893 by their daughter Sarah H. O’Brien.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. W. G. Webb, Dispustanta, Virginia

Court Records, Clerk’s Office
Prince George County, Prince George, Virginia
Surveyor’s Book 1794 – 1824 page 149
Deed Book – Vol. 44 page 570
Deed Book – Vol. 84 page 293

Tombstone Inscriptions

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